American architecture is undergoing fundamental changes. Gavin Macrae-Gibson interprets this new architecture in critiques of Frank Gehry's house in Santa Monica (the representation of perception); Peter Eisenman's House El Even Odd (millenial anxiety); Cesar Pelli's Four Leaf Towers (a sensibility of silence); Michael Graves's Portland Building (a concern for the sublime); Robert Stern's Bozzi House (a discussion of scenography); Alan Greenberg's Manchester Superior Court Building (the continuity of the classical); and Robert Venturi's Gordon Wu Hall Princeton (an irony of the difficult whole). The author rejects modernist explanations of these recent architectural achievements in favor of a new poetic logic that he combines with a formal analysis to reveal the layers of meaning present in each building, including the deepest layer its secret life.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780262631181
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-262-63118-1
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.01.1988
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Neuauflage 1988
- Serie: Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
- Gewicht: 694 g
- Seiten: 234
- Format (B x H x T): 203 x 279 x 20 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt